Category Archives of : Behind the scenes

It is great to have Pedro dos Reis helping out in an advisory role. I met Pedro through the Just Street Photography group on Flickr, he also started the Real Street Photography group. Since a Photography Course at MEF in 2002, Pedro has been developing work in the visual arts – using photography and video. This led to exposure [...]

This is being written from Hong Kong! A stopover on our move from France to NZ. Unfortunately (for me) I did not take the above photo. But I did check out the Tian Tan Buddha on Lantau Island.

Recently a friend was checking out a prototype of HiLO Lens. He is in Germany and we were video conferencing. It is great to have someone to bounce ideas off. I was more than surprised when at the end of our conversation he said he would like to help fund HiLO Lens! Funding the development [...]

Rather than sleeping I’ve been working with Arif to create a mascot for HiLO Lens. The obvious choice, for obvious reasons is a sheep. Sheep represent the intelligence , good design and adaptability that HiLO Lens aspires to. Without further ado …. Thanks Arif for your great work.

An article earlier touched on whether to patent or not. The conclusion for HiLO Lens was to go ahead and patent. To help keep the filing cost low I spent quite some time on the description. So our lawyer had a lot less work to do. We also did the drawings ourselves. This is easy [...]

I’m very lucky to have met Robert Haleluk who offered to help out with some advice about getting HiLO Lens off the ground. Robert knows a lot about building iPhone accessories because he is the inventor of the iShuttr. He also knows a lot about crowdfunding on Kickstarter because he successfully funded the Dipr project [...]

I’m looking further into the crowdfunding (which we touched on earlier) and it is very cool. I’ve already backed a couple of projects myself, I like being involved at the grass roots level. Let’s hope this internet model has bright days ahead.

Trying to justify myself is not something I relish. Doing it in public is a real challenge ! But if you like the HiLO Lens project maybe you’d like to know more about where it comes from. If the story looks too long, just scan for the words in bold